Berg"mas`ter (&?;), n. See Barmaster.
Berg"meal (&?;), n. [G. berg mountain + mehl meal.] (Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.
Berg"mote (&?;), n. See Barmote.
Ber"go*mask (&?;), n. A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
Ber"gylt (&?;), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Zoöl.) The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.
Be*rhyme" (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Berhymed (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Berhyming.] To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about. [Sometimes use depreciatively.] Shak.
||Be`ri*be"ri (&?;), n. [Singhalese beri weakness.] An acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.
Be*rime" (&?;), v. t. To berhyme. [The earlier and etymologically preferable spelling.]
Berke*le"ian (&?;), a. Of or relating to Bishop Berkeley or his system of idealism; as, Berkeleian philosophy. -- Berke"ley*ism, n.
Ber"lin (&?;), n. [The capital of Prussia] 1. A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.